>>12688402Bait aside we need to teach logic in elementary school.
1. Teach simple logical structures
2. Teach logic puzzles, can easily translate into all sorts of families versions for engagement
3. Introduce logical fallacies
4. Teach information evaluation and discrimination
5. Information validation strategies
Unironically I think this is the single most important thing a child of the 21st century needs to learn. They are presented with all the world's knowledge the moment they figure out how to break child locks and it is imperative they have the skills to detect bad information. It's wrecking havoc on older generations who use the internet heavily as most didn't need super high quality information filters, either Jimmy down the road told the truth or he lied and if he lied I could find him and call him a dumbfuck. But even if Jimmy lied it would be about practical day to day stuff and not global issues that they literally could not get information on with any reliability without excessive work. Only academics and analysts needed to know how to handle large volumes of seemingly unrelated information and identify fake/biased information. This is why we have so many boomers falling for the weakest bait and refusing to change their minds, because to their cognitive strategy the source on facebook is as good as 10 Jimmy's and does not recognize the difference between being told this by another person and a post on the internet worth less than the pixels used to generate it.
